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HE scrambled out on the first bank he came to , and he hopped home across the meadow with his macintosh all in tatters . " WHAT a mercy that was not a pike ! " said Mr . Jeremy Fisher . " I have lost my rod and basket ; but it does not much matter , for I am sure I should never have dared to go fishing again ! " HE put some sticking plaster on his fingers , and his friends both came to dinner . He could not offer them fish , but he had something else in his larder . SIR ISAAC NEWTON wore his black and gold waistcoat , AND Mr . Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise brought a salad with him in a string bag . AND instead of a nice dish of minnows — they had a roasted grasshopper with lady - bird sauce ; which frogs consider a beautiful treat ; but I think it must have been nasty ! THE END THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES FOR MANY UNKNOWN LITTLE FRIENDS , INCLUDING MONICA ONCE upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel , called Timmy Tiptoes . He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree ; and he had a little squirrel wife called Goody . TIMMY TIPTOES sat out , enjoying the breeze ; he whisked his tail and chuckled — " Little wife Goody , the nuts are ripe ; we must lay up a store for winter and spring . " Goody Tiptoes was busy pushing moss under the thatch — " The nest is so snug , we shall be sound asleep all winter . " " Then we shall wake up all the thinner , when there is nothing to eat in spring - time , " replied prudent Timothy . WHEN Timmy and Goody Tiptoes came to the nut thicket , they found other squirrels were there already . Timmy took off his jacket and hung it on a twig ; they worked away quietly by themselves . EVERY day they made several journeys and picked quantities of nuts . They carried them away in bags , and stored them in several hollow stumps near the tree where they had built their nest . WHEN these stumps were full , they began to empty the bags into a hole high up a tree , that had belonged to a wood - pecker ; the nuts rattled down — down — down inside . " How shall you ever get them out again ? It is like a money - box ! " said Goody . " I shall be much thinner before spring - time , my love , " said Timmy Tiptoes , peeping into the hole . THEY did collect quantities — because they did not lose them ! Squirrels who bury their nuts in the ground lose more than half , because they cannot remember the place . The most forgetful squirrel in the wood was called Silvertail . He began to dig , and he could not remember . And then he dug again and found some nuts that did not belong to him ; and there was a fight . And other squirrels began to dig , — the whole wood was in commotion ! UNFORTUNATELY , just at this time a flock of little birds flew by , from bush to bush , searching for green caterpillars and spiders . There were several sorts of little birds , twittering different songs .
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